Dragging files onto archive
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i think restore to the date back before 7z associated would be best option but who knows what else you installed since then.
however, we should have next version soon enough.
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I had had 7-zip installed since about day one of installing Win 7, so restoring is kinda not an option… I will await the next version then. Thanks.
By the way, the version I was using was 9.20, a stable version, but it is possible I had a beta before that- I know you mentioned betas and alphas in an email to me.
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By the way, is it normal behavior that when uninstalling only the admin settings are removed? Also related, whenever I reinstall PA, running as admin will require the registration info to be entered while running it as local user it is already registered from previous installation (even when I don’t register on the admin account right away).
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@Qun:
By the way, is it normal behavior that when uninstalling only the admin settings are removed? Also related, whenever I reinstall PA, running as admin will require the registration info to be entered while running it as local user it is already registered from previous installation (even when I don’t register on the admin account right away).
“normal” yes… has been for as long as I have been using ConeXware Products.
Frustrating slightly… But an element to avoid bugs. ie removes all settings and registry links.
One thing i would suggest if you have not done it already would be to use the “Save settings to file…” option on the “Configuration” button once you as a user / admin are happy PowerArchiver works the way you want.
That way after a fresh start you can upload your preffered settings…
One feature I have pushed the development team for is the ability to enter your Serial and Configuration settings during the Installation Process.
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So you’re saying the settings should be removed, but why are they only removed for the administrator profile, while leaving the local profile intact? Like many people, I set myself up to run as a limited user when I installed Win 7 (also when I had Vista) rather than one with full admin privileges.
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@Qun:
So you’re saying the settings should be removed, but why are they only removed for the administrator profile, while leaving the local profile intact? Like many people, I set myself up to run as a limited user when I installed Win 7 (also when I had Vista) rather than one with full admin privileges.
hmph, problem here is that install removes what it installed.
and it installed itself under admin user.
when you later on run on any other user, installation does not know that anymore… it is not aware of any other changes to the system.
and when you uninstall, you basically uninstall for all users on the computer, however to have some kind of script that would run through every HKCU for every user and delete all PA keys seems a bit extreme.
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Understood. Thanks for answering the question, and for the continued work in looking for fixes for the issue I’ve been experiencing, and of course thanks for PA itself.
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it is interesting question though… should try attempt to remove any HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver that there is?
You can literally have 50 users on the computer and of course, installation is unaware of you running PA later on. PA will automatically write down settings to HKCU after it is run from new account.
Also this made me make reminder about testing if this new all user setting is actually removed during installation as well :-).
thanks for being our customer of course!
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Well, in that case, glad I could help! :)
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Please try this, uninstall and reinstall PowerArchiver RC5.
Do not manually delete any reg keys. Reinstall and try again.
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I already did that, trying to install from both my local account (which required elevation to admin of course as any installation does), and also directly from the admin account. I never manually removed registry keys as I don’t know yet what I would need to remove. I have since uninstalled it and gone back to 11.71, but I can try again.
EDIT: Just tried again. I overwrote the 11.71 installation first, then tried uninstalling, rebooting, then reinstalling. No good. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the situation, but I remembered I turned off Windows compressed zip support when I first installed Win 7- standard practice for me because I don’t want to see zip files show up as folders in a folder tree.
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Could any of my issues have anything to do with disabling the Windows built-in zip folder support? I always do that on Windows installations because I don’t like them showing up as folders in Explorer. Then again, I expect a lot of people do this as well, and as far as I know I am the only one so far with the PA issues I’m having.
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i doubt it, i will check with the dev team after we release pa 2011 on what could be the issue in the system…
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i doubt it, i will check with the dev team after we release pa 2011 on what could be the issue in the system…
The installation of PA seems to automatically disable the inbuilt ZIP function in Win 7. I also do not like it but have never had to uninstall/disable it in either 32 or 64 bit 7. Done it is XP so many times I know the command by heart :).
DrT
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The installation of PA seems to automatically disable the inbuilt ZIP function in Win 7. I also do not like it but have never had to uninstall/disable it in either 32 or 64 bit 7. Done it is XP so many times I know the command by heart :).
DrT
it doesnt do anything to built-in zip, it disables itself once it doesnt have association to zip.
but that has nothing to do with drag and drop.
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but that has nothing to do with drag and drop.
That is what I was trying to say to the OP who posed that question.
DrT
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but that has nothing to do with drag and drop.
That is what I was trying to say to the OP who posed that question.
DrT
ok, but still let it be said that we dont actually disable anything… Windows removes it itself once associations go to some other program… not our fault :-)
